Pro Tour Honolulu 2009

Mitamura Finds Gold in Paradise

Experience proved to be worth its weight in gold here at Pro Tour–Honolulu. Three-time Top 8er Kazuya Mitamura of Japan dispatched newcomer Michal Hebky of the Czech Republic in the five-game final to take home the title and $40,000 first prize. Mitamura didn’t drop a match in nine rounds of Shards of Alara Booster Draft across three days, showing off his dominance of the block.

A Booster Draft Top 8 culminated the Block Constructed/Draft dual-format Pro Tour, with Mitamura finding gold in a red-green build punctuated with double Vithian Stinger plus Quietus Spike . He held off Hebky’s Bant deck after Mitamura took a blistering two-game lead in the final.

The Pro Tour’s return to Honolulu provided everything a Magic fan could hope for—players living up the PT lifestyle in beach houses around the island of Oahu, major debuts on the biggest Magic stage in the world, a tightening of the Player of the Year race between Luis Scott-Vargas and Gabriel Nassif, and plenty of Block Constructed and Booster Draft tech to help make you a better player.